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Eighth Circuit: Shackling Pregnant Prisoner During Labor Unconstitutional

Loaded on April 15, 2010 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News April, 2010, page 20
Filed under: Medical, OB/GYN, Restraints, Qualified Immunity. Location: Arkansas.
by Matt Clarke

On October 2, 2009, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting en banc, held that shackling a pregnant prisoner while she was in labor constituted cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the U.S. Constitution.

Shawanna Nelson was six months pregnant when she was sent to the ...

 

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